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/r/EmailPrivacy - take back ownership of your privacy

Here to help with your e-mail privacy & security questions. Keep in mind privacy and anonymity are not the same; one can be private without being anonymous.

29k subscribers132 posts / mo in Sep 2026120 authors / mosince 2015

r/emailprivacy has 29k members (+89% over the last 12 months). It gets about 132 posts a month from 120 people. Top topics: Email Clients & Apps, GmailPrivacyAndSecurity and Email Aliases & Custom Domains.

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Size and growth

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+89%in 12 months · +10% in 3 months · +2.6% in 1 month
Oct 202629k
Growing29k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+9.1%vs Sep 2025 · −1.9% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026132
BusierPeaked at 160 in Jun 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/emailprivacy

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Email Clients & Apps11%
  2. GmailPrivacyAndSecurity7.7%
  3. Email Aliases & Custom Domains7.5%
  4. Email Privacy & Security6.6%
  5. ProtonMail Apps & Email3.7%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

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